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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 41

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It illustrates how the meanest Government clerk, more especially when armed with pen and paper, can strike terror into the heart of the boldest and strongest countryman.\]

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**Who acts:** story, meanest Government clerk · **What happens:** illustrate, strike · **To what, where:** terror, heart

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, meanest Government clerk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:11:41
# text = It illustrates how the meanest Government clerk, more especially when armed with pen and paper, can strike terror into the heart of the boldest and strongest countryman.]
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	illustrates	illustrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	meanest	mean	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
20	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	boldest	bold	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	conj	_	_
29	countryman	countryman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **illustrate** | present | story |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **strike** | can | the meanest Government clerk | terror |  |  |  | into the heart of the boldest countryman *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent terror=Patient into heart=Result |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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